Poems, Volum 1J. Johnson, 1798 |
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Side 19
... just made , To turn a penny in the way of trade ; When av'rice ftarves ( and never hides his face ) Two or three millions of the human race , And not a tongue inquires , how , where , or when , Though confcience will have twinges now ...
... just made , To turn a penny in the way of trade ; When av'rice ftarves ( and never hides his face ) Two or three millions of the human race , And not a tongue inquires , how , where , or when , Though confcience will have twinges now ...
Side 31
... just pretence- Fervency , freedom , fluency of thought , Harmony , ftrength , words exquifitely fought Fancy , that from the bow that spans the sky Brings colours , dipt in heav'n , that never die A foul exalted above earth , a mind ...
... just pretence- Fervency , freedom , fluency of thought , Harmony , ftrength , words exquifitely fought Fancy , that from the bow that spans the sky Brings colours , dipt in heav'n , that never die A foul exalted above earth , a mind ...
Side 48
... just and true To give to virtue what is virtue's due- The praise of wisdom , comeliness , and worth ; And call her charms to public notice forth- Than vice's mean and difingenuous race To hide the fhocking features of her face . Her ...
... just and true To give to virtue what is virtue's due- The praise of wisdom , comeliness , and worth ; And call her charms to public notice forth- Than vice's mean and difingenuous race To hide the fhocking features of her face . Her ...
Side 53
... just deportment , manners grac'd with ease , Elegant phrafe , and figure form'd to please , Are qualities that seem to comprehend Whatever parents , guardians , schools , intend ; Hence an unfurnish'd and a liftlefs mind , Though bufy ...
... just deportment , manners grac'd with ease , Elegant phrafe , and figure form'd to please , Are qualities that seem to comprehend Whatever parents , guardians , schools , intend ; Hence an unfurnish'd and a liftlefs mind , Though bufy ...
Side 55
... just . How fhall I speak thee , or thy pow'r address , Thou god of our idolatry , the press ? By thee , religion , liberty , and laws , Exert their influence , and advance their caufe ; By thee , worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befel ...
... just . How fhall I speak thee , or thy pow'r address , Thou god of our idolatry , the press ? By thee , religion , liberty , and laws , Exert their influence , and advance their caufe ; By thee , worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befel ...
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Populære avsnitt
Side 311 - The meek intelligence of those dear eyes (Blest be the art that can immortalize, The art that baffles Time's tyrannic claim To quench it) here shines on me still the same.
Side 263 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Side 205 - That reaching home, the night, they said, is near, We must not now be parted, sojourn here — The new acquaintance soon became a guest, And made so welcome at their simple feast, He...
Side 313 - Robin, day by day, Drew me to school along the public way, Delighted with my bauble coach, and wrapt In scarlet mantle warm, and velvet capt, 'Tis now become a history little known, That once we call'd the past'ral house our own.
Side 77 - Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew, And in that charter reads, with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies.
Side 272 - On the whole it appears, and my argument shows, With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them.
Side 173 - When one, that holds communion with the skies, Has filled his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied.
Side 313 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid...
Side 280 - Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far...
Side 311 - Affectionate, a mother lost so long. 1 will obey, not willingly alone, But gladly as the precept were her own: And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream, that thou art she.